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Fire and forethought: Fire effects syntheses are a powerful tool for planning and management across resource fields

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: The Rocky Mountain Research Station’s Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) team synthesizes information about wildland fires, their history in U.S. ecosystems, and their effects on U.S. wildland plants, lichens, and animals. Found at www.feis-crs.org/feis/, FEIS publications can be used for many purposes, including land use planning, restoration and rehabilitation planning,…
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Burgeoning biomass: Creating efficient and sustainable forest biomass supply chains in the Rockies

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: Woody biomass could be used to generate energy in the western U.S. if the utilization process is both economically feasible and ecologically sustainable. The purpose of the RMRS-led Biomass Research and Development Initiative (BRDI) is to develop technologies, approaches, and new science that will help to make this possible. Read Part…
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Living with fire: How social scientists are helping wildland-urban interface communities reduce wildfire risk

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: Reducing wildfire risk to lives and property is a critical issue for policy makers, land managers, and citizens who reside in high-risk fire areas of the United States – this is especially the case in the Rocky Mountain region and other western states. In order for a wildfire risk…
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Protecting the source: Tools to evaluate fuel treatment cost vs. water quality protection

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: High-intensity wildfires are one of the leading causes of severe soil erosion in western U.S. watersheds. This erosion can lead to disruptive deposits of sediment in reservoirs and water supply systems. For this reason, land managers can benefit from estimating the erosion potential of high-intensity wildfires in order to…
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Wildland fire: Nature’s fuel treatment

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: Every year wildland fires affect much more acreage in the United States compared to controlled burns. Like controlled burns, wildland fire can help promote biological diversity and healthy ecosystems. But despite these facts, wildland fire is not often considered as a fuel treatment in the United States. Read the…
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Learn from the burn: The High Park Fire 5 years later

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: The 2012 High Park Fire that occurred near Fort Collins, CO was particularly severe with nearly half of the total burn area being classified as high and moderate burn severity. This 85,000-acre wildfire caused extensive property damage, loss of life, and severe impacts to the water quality of the…
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Painting a picture across the landscape with ModelMap

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: Scientists and statisticians working for the Rocky Mountain Research Station have created a software package that simplifies and automates many of the processes needed for converting models into maps. This software package, called ModelMap, has helped a variety of specialists and land managers to quickly convert data into easily…
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Where’s the beef? Predicting the effects of climate change on cattle production in western U.S. rangelands

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: Matt Reeves, a research economist with the USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station, along with collaborators, have been trying to understand the impacts of climate change and what they might mean for cattle numbers and operations. A model was developed that uses projections of temperatures and precipitation conditions across western…
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Streamwater nitrogen and forest dynamics following a mountain pine beetle epidemic: Insights from three decades of research at Fraser Experimental Forest, CO

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: A recently published study by a team of Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS) scientists describes a 10-year investigation of streamwater nitrogen (N) and forest dynamics following a mountain pine beetle epidemic. Unlike the abrupt nutrient changes typical after a wildfire or timber harvesting, the outcomes of insect outbreaks are…
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Warming and warnings: Assessing climate change vulnerability in the Rocky Mountain Region

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: To help evaluate ecosystem vulnerability across the Rocky Mountain Region, a team of scientists with the U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station compiled extensive research over the past few years, collaborating on a general technical report entitled Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment of Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems in the…
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Test Blog Grid

Burgeoning biomass: Creating efficient and sustainable forest biomass supply chains in the Rockies

Living with fire: How social scientists are helping wildland-urban interface communities reduce wildfire risk

Protecting the source: Tools to evaluate fuel treatment cost vs. water quality protection

Wildland fire: Nature’s fuel treatment

Learn from the burn: The High Park Fire 5 years later

Where’s the beef? Predicting the effects of climate change on cattle production in western U.S. rangelands

Streamwater nitrogen and forest dynamics following a mountain pine beetle epidemic: Insights from three decades of research at Fraser Experimental Forest, CO

Warming and warnings: Assessing climate change vulnerability in the Rocky Mountain Region

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